ARRESTING POPE BENEDICT FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMAN

Religions, scams, and hoaxes succeed because they exploit powerful psychological processes. These processes are the very ones that have enabled humans to survive and create art and technology, but also trasform Homo Sapiens into Homo Suckers! http://venitism.blogspot.com

Irish Premier Enda Kenny has launched a huge attack on the Catholic Church, accusing its cardinals of failing to properly address the myriad sex abuse scandals. Kenny declares the Unholy See puts church interests ahead of those of child abuse victims on a routine basis, it's out-of-touch, and tries to frustrate an inquiry into abuse held as little as three years ago.
In 1966 John Lennon claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lennon said: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.  http://venitism.blogspot.com
Lennon uttered those fateful words at the height of Beatlemania. The British Invasion happened to also coincide with the decline of Christianity, especially in England, and especially amongst the younger generations. The mass hysteria of Beatlemania was analogous to religious ecstasy. Many fans truly saw the Beatles as musical messiahs. John, Paul, George, and Ringo reported that fans would bring sick people to their concerts, in the belief that the band had a divine healing presence.
There is a government report which accuses the Catholic Church of failings in its handling of abuse allegations against 19 clerics in the diocese of Cloyne, southern Ireland. The Cloyne report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, the narcissism, that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day.
Let's face it, we are all victims of Abrahamic religions! Historians have proven that Abraham never existed! Nevertheless, the religulous tenets of the three Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, are dangerous fairy tales and myths that have incited barbarous purges and holy wars that are still being fought. A talking snake? A man who lived inside a fish? A son of Roman rapist presented as the only son of God? Resurrection? Divine Revelations? Day of Judgment? Hell? Jihad? Adolf Hitler used to say that hoi polloi tend to believe big lies, not small lies!
These are favorite religious images presenting God as grudge collector, deserving ridicule. But those who believe in the end-of-days may be making a self-fulfilling prophecy of apocalyptic images of stampeding armies and mushroom clouds in the ruins of Megiddo, the Israeli site from which the Book of Revelation says Armageddon will originate.  http://venitism.blogspot.com
Kenny asserts the rape and torture of children were downplayed or managed to uphold instead the primacy of the institution, its power, standing and reputation. The Unholy See response to myriad sex abuses of children by clergy has been inadequate and inappropriate, and this had compounded victims' pain.
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens plan a legal ambush to have Pope, the unholy father, arrested for crimes against humanity! They have asked a distinguished group of human rights lawyers headed by Geoffrey Robertson to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over the cover up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The Pope does not enjoy diplomatic immunity, because the Unholy See is recognized by the United Nations only as an observer State, not a regular State. Church's Augean stables need to be comprehensively cleaned up now.
The report strongly criticizes former Bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, who served as private secretary to three successive popes - Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II - for failures in child protection. The Irish embassy at the Vatican will be downgraded in status. Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore has raised the report's findings with papal ambassador Giuseppe Leanza. Kenny notes his government would wait to hear the Vatican's reaction.
Stung by myriad charges of clergy sexual abuse, corruption, orgies, and coverup that reach the pope, patriarchs, and archbishops, churches face a crisis of empty pews and empty coffers. Churches need to address their own failures, acknowledge their own guilt, ask for forgiveness, and heal as a family. Apostates of Christianity outnumber converts by four-to-one.  http://venitism.blogspot.com